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separate tribe distinguished from the Kandaloi, both cannot 
be merged into one, nor can PhylUtai be taken as a Grreek 
word, for Ptolemy does not use Grreek expressions instead 
of, or among other, Indian proper names withoxit tendering 
an explanation for such an xmusual proceeding. PhylUtai, 
moreover, does not occur in Grreek in the sense suggested by 
Sir A. Cunningham. 
The passage in Ptolemy has no connection whatever with 
the Sabaras.'** 
XII, XIV, XV and XVI. Prolessor Butler especially has Ms publication 
and translation of a considerable number of Balabhl grants considerably 
contributed to the elucidation of this hitherto dark passage in Indian history. 
Compare also Sii' Alexander Cunningham's remarks in the ArchcBological 
Surveij of India, vol. II, pp. 33-35 : " We know also that both the Balas 
and the Kathi of the present day pay special adoration to the sun, -which 
■was the chief deity of Multan, from the earliest times down to the reign 
of Aurangzib, by whose orders the idol is said to have been destroyed. It 
seems probable therefore that the Bdlas may be the same tribe as the ilalli 
or Main of Alexander's historians, as the interchange of the letters b and 
}W, which is of frequent occurrence in most languages, was very common in 
the Macedonian dialect." Compare about Multan, vol. V, pp. 114-136 of 
the Archaological Survey of India ; and about the golden statue of the Sun, 
H. M. Elliot's History of India, vol. I, pp. 11, 23, 27, 35, 82, 205 and -169. 
The remark about the Macedonian dialect is misleading, as the Greek 
historians mention the Malloi, and as the change of m into J is in this 
instance of Indian origin. 
The Fardsarapaddhati mentions the Bhils, Pulindas, Pullas, Mallas and 
others in the following lines : 
Piilinda-Meda-Bhilla^ca PuHo Mallasca Dhavakah, 
Kundakaro Dokhalo va Mrtapo Hastipas tatha ; 
Ete vai Tivarajjatah kanyayam Brahmanasya ca. 
See Ptolemy, VII, 1, 66; "ritpl H rhv tiavafoivav^vTJ^iTai Kal B-qTTiynt, 
iv oTs KavSaKot fiiv -rapa tovs ^vWiras Kol rhv Trora^wii'." See Sir A. Cun- 
nino-ham in the Arch ecological Survey of India, vol. IX, p. 151 : " In his 
" (Ptolemy's) day the large district at the head of the Xanayina, or Tapti 
*' Eiver, was occupied by the Kondali at Goudali, a name which has been 
" generally identified with that of the Gonds. But their coimtrj- is desci-ibed 
" as pars Phullitarum, the PhuUitae themselves being placed more to the 
" north. I take tliis name to be a p^u-c Greek one, <pv\\nral, descriptive 
" of the ' leaf-cLid ' aborigines. Varaha Mihii-a notices the Parna-Saharas, 
" or 'leaf-clad Sam-as ' ; and wc Imow that the Juangs of the present day 
still preserve this priniitive costume. I believe, therefore, that there may 
"have been Gaudas, or 'leaf -clad Gonds,' in the time of Ptolemy, 
" and that those are the people intended by his Phullitae-Gondali.'* 
